LETTER  Sewage spill is simply unacceptable

Thursday

Jun 23, 2011 at 12:01 AMJun 23, 2011 at 11:09 PM

Why is the raw sewage spill that occurred Tuesday acceptable to anyone? This is ridiculous. The really sad part is that the health department spokesman was relatively happy that we got this far into the summer before a no-contact advisory was called for Lake Macatawa.

Todd Snider

Why is the raw sewage spill that occurred Tuesday acceptable to anyone? This is ridiculous. The really sad part is that the health department spokesman was relatively happy that we got this far into the summer before a no-contact advisory was called for Lake Macatawa.

Is this the level that we’ve sunk to? So if we lower our expectations to the point that we’re in June before a sewage dump into the river, we should be happy about it? We love Holland. We are constantly reminded of why it’s such a great place to live and then I get the news that we dumped raw sewage into the river again. That’s the kind of thing you’d expect from a Third World country.

We have a great resource here and Lake Macatawa has enough struggles as it is. We don’t need to keep burdening our precious water with raw sewage every year. The people responsible for preventing this should be embarrassed. Come on, folks, it’s your job to make sure this doesn’t happen. Our local officials should get their nose rubbed in Lake Macatawa (like a dog that defecated on the carpet).

Well, its raining outside, I guess we should expect another sewage spill soon.